Receptacle



Feb. 19, 1924:

J. A. BENEDICT RECEPTACLE Filed Jan. 4, 1921 m I I M a w of which ispreferably Patented eh. 19,1QZ4

I JOSEPIH A, nnnEni oT;-or onrcheofittinois.- I

'- RECEPTACLE.

Appl icationliled January-.4, 192 1.. Serial Ito.

To all whom it may concern; n

- Be it known that I, JosErHf A. a citizen of theUnited States ofArneriea, g and a resident o-f-Ghicago, county. of Cook,

and State of Illinois,'h ave invented certain new and usefulImprovements incRecep-i tacles, of wh ch the follow ng s a, specfication. 1

This .invention h'as for its object to pro; vide certain new and usefulimprovements in boxes or receptacles particularly adapted I 4 tainthel'reptaele firmly closed ithepla E is'providdn a t hm fi t mp si I Ifor the storage of stockionshelves. y The particular object of theinventionis :tov provide a closure for such'receptacles which willpermit .the' same tob fully opened foraccess without drawing the boxoutwardly from the shelf for "this purpose.

The invention is seen to be illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Fig. 1 is a perspective view'of a recep tacle constructed inaccordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary detail vertical I longitudinalsection of thesame on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail vertical longitudinal section of theysame showing theclosure partly down in open position.

The receptacle may be made of any suitable material and is generally,and most conveniently, of rectangular cross-section, one end thereofbeing normally entirely open.

The top wall A of the receptacle projects slightly forward of the frontedges of-the side and bottom walls and the said projecting portion isprovided in its lower face with a longitudinal groove B, the rear wallflush with the front edges of the side walls.

Hinged in any suitable manner to the front edge of the bottom Wall C ofthe receptacle is one part or plate D of the receptacle closure whichconsists of the parts D and E hinged together along a line or pivotalaxis which is parallel with the top and bottom walls of the receptacle.The said hinged connection between the plates D and E is such as topermit the same to become disposed angularly relatively to each other,as shown in Fig. 3, so that the inner portion of the angle formedthereby opposes the open end of the receptacle. The plates D and E areof such dimensions relatively to the mouth of the receptacle so that theside edge portions of said plates are adapted to Pus aga stxthaf on ed el e-s l sjand s h t hen hei' ar d ro a how 'r ai igi att r freaedg of hP e E Will age -n theFei-" OY 311 he t e. wall A. Thus, when-saidplates-i D and' eia hwia achi ae a a s relative pivotal movement and thefree edge t harl Elia sn f eie eov B e s id n s r pla e will be manneredii 1" 1i dipq lt i i j -a :1 Inl'order. to ,efiectsuch closure andmain.-

ing the suitably securedto said plate Epre" elrably'abou't mid the s'idedges hereof; edadja. ed connation with deplete-D. A lever otallysecured to the plate F and is,- adapted to engage the projecting springtongue H struck from or otherwise secured'to a plate Iasuitab-ly securedto theplate D midway between the side edges thereof and adjacent. itshinged connection with the plate E. The

lever G spans the hinged connection between so I the plate D and E andwhen engaged with o is such as to permit said plate D to drop, downbelow and hang'substantially vertically from said bottom wall C, thuscausing the. open end of the receptacle to be completely exposed to viewand to permit the contents of the receptacle to be very readily removedwithout necessitating outward movement of the receptacle from the shelfor other support therefor. In effecting closure of the receptacle theplates D and E are-moved to substantially the relative position shown inFig. 3, and upon continued pivotal movement of the plate D relative tothe bottom wall C in an upward direction the free edge of. the pl'ate Ewill strike the front edges of the side walls of the receptacle andthereupon further continued movement of the plate D in the samedirection will cause the said free edge of the plate E to movecontinuously upwardly until it is engaged in the groove B. At this timethe plates D and E will be flush with each other and thereupon a pivotalmovement of the latch lever G to engage the spring tongue will lock theplates D and E in said flush position and against, pivotal movementrelative to each other, thus holding thein firmly in position tocomplete closure of the receptacle.

In order to open the receptacle it is only necessary to turn the latchlever vGr out of engagement with the tongue H, whereupon the closurewill drop by gravity to its lowermost "position, as

Will be obvious.

While I have shown the preferred embodiment of the invention in theaccompanying drawings, it will be understood, of course,"

' as defined inthe appended claim.

I claim as my invention: 7 l a A' receptacle having side walls and a.top and bottom Wall, said receptacle open at one end and said top andbottoms projecting" beyond the ends of the sidewalls, there be ing agroove in the lower face of the projecting end portion of the topwall,"a' closure for said openend comprising two p-lates,. one thereofhinged to the projecting end portion of the"bottom wall thereofhingedalong one edge to the free end of the first-named plate the combined sthat such embodiment may 'bechanged and varied in details ofconstruetion without departing from the invention and the other a Veeaase length of said plates being such that when the side walls'of'said receptaclewhen in closed position, said plates adapted to beangularly disposed with relation to each other as they are moved toclosed position and brought flush with each other as the free end ofthesecond-named plate strikes the ends of the side walls'tofthereby projectsaid free end into said groove, and, means for maintaining said closuremember in said position comprisinga latch'memberpivotally-secured to oneof said plates, 'a coacting latch element rigidly mounted on the otherplate and adapted to engage the free end portion of said pivoted member'as the latter is turned to position spanningthe hinge connectionbetween said plates, to thereby coact with'sai'd endsgof said sidewallsgto prevent relative pivotal movement of saiddisengagement of saidfree end plates and of said secondJ'glate from said groove.

SEPH A. BENEDICT.

